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September 24, 2003 - 5:16pm -- jim
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"Implications of Cancun"

Walden Bello, September 23, 2003

The collapse of the Fifth Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico, last Sunday, Sept. 14, was an event of historic proportions.


Cancun has several massive implications.

September 24, 2003 - 10:01am -- jim
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rncnotwelcome.org collective writes:


"We Interupt this Empire" Screenings in New York City

  • Tuesday September 30th as part of Freedom Cinema at Walker Stage, 56 Walker Street, [2 blocks south of Canal]. Subway: N, R, J, M, Z, Q, 6 to Canal. 8PM. $5-7 at the door. Hosted by the rncnotwelcome.org collective and the NYC IMC Video Collective.

  • Thursday, October 2 at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street [between Suffolk & Clinton] in the Lower East Side. [View map] Two shows! 7 & 9PM! $5-10 sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will be split between the Video Activist Network (VAN) and rncnotwelcome.org

    The most talked about anti-war documentary from the Bay Area is here in NYC.

    • September 20, 2003 - 5:53pm -- jim
    Analysis & Polemic
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    "Deprogramming 101"

    Victor Thorn & Lisa Guliani

    "It's been said that if you want to fool the world, tell it the truth. So many people walk through life unaware that they are living under dangerous misperceptions and serious falsehoods. We see this practice in our city every single day. It was particularly evident at a recent anti-war protest held at Penn State University. The demonstration boasted a very large number of attendees, most of who fed into the present day mythology that keeps them oblivious to how the world operates and who is really calling the shots -- both in America and around the world."


    Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca

    September 16, 2003 - 8:05pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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    nolympics writes

    "We Are Winning"
    By Writers Bloc

    By the time news that negotiations inside the WTO had imploded in the face of an open and unified insurrection by delegates of the global south, the party was in full swing. Members of the resistance --peasants from South Africa, Thailand, Central America and Korea with a large crowd of global justice activists still high from the success of the previous day's 'grande manifestation' -- danced around the fountain. At kilometer zero, the spot where Lee Kyung Have fell by his own hand just a few days earlier, ecstatic celebration mixed with memorial, an American hippie drummer joined the Korean percussionists. Mexican campesinos sported Korean headbands and a handsome schoolteacher from Seoul stood slightly apart from the joyous crowd in dark sunglasses and an embroidered ladies indigenous blouse.

    September 16, 2003 - 6:53am -- hydrarchist
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    hydrarchist writes:

    This translation from Indymedia Italy

    GENOA - Today, the Genoa Prosecutor sent to 73 people notices that investigations against them been closed. The investigations in question were all part of a two-year inquiry into the events that took place in the Diaz and Pascoli schools and in the Bolzaneto police barracks
    during the G8 summit. From the Diaz and Pascoli schools, 30 people have charges against them; the defendants are police, penitentiary personnel, and medical staff.

    September 13, 2003 - 1:49pm -- jim
    Analysis & Polemic
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    "Cancun Report: As Empire Builder,
    the U.S. Feels the Heat"

    Tom Hayden, AlterNet September 10, 2003

    CANCUN, Sept. 8. "The Real Cancun" is a pretty
    trashy film, with hard-partying American college kids
    being awakened by mariachi musicians against the vista
    of a Hilton hotel designed like the nearby Mayan ruins.
    In one scene, its hero, Alan, tells his drinking
    partner, "People like what they can't have. So, if you
    want a girl to really like you, just blow her off."

    September 13, 2003 - 11:19am -- jim
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    midwest unrest writes:

    Chicago Consulta to Shut Down the FTAA

    Nov. 20-21, 2003


    On November 20 and 21 the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) will meet at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Miami to unilaterally finalize their vision of an economic policy that threatens the freedom and well being of every living being in this hemisphere. Although ordinary people will not be allowed into the meetings to offer their input, we will be in the streets to welcome them.

    September 12, 2003 - 9:34am -- jim
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    Full moon over Richmond writes:


    "Connecting the Imperial Dots:

    San Francisco WTO Solidarity Action"
    Patrick Reinsborough

    As thousands descended upon Cancun to prepare for the week of actions against the WTO, a diverse group of nearly 400 of us gathered in a park in Point Richmond, California. People from all walks of life were united by a common opposition to corporate globalization, war and the destruction that our addiction to oil wreaks on communities and ecosystems around the world.

    September 11, 2003 - 12:13pm -- jim
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    "Cancun: Kyoung Hae Lee Is Dead"

    Starhawk

    Kyoung Hae Lee is dead. I don't yet know his
    story, only that he came with the Korean workers'
    contingent. I videoed them forming up in the march,
    carrying their proud banners, beating their drums and
    bells. They marched up at the front, with the
    campesinos and the other workers. When the march
    reached the police barricade, they split off, marched
    up to the fence, and Kyoung Hae Lee took his own life,
    stabbing himself in the heart in an act of ritual
    suicide.

    September 5, 2003 - 8:34am -- jim
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    Anonymous Comrade submits:

    SAT, SEPT 13 - SAY NO TO THE WTO!


    NYC Parade and Festival of Resistance to War & Corporate Rule

    Gather at 1pm, south steps of Union Square (14th & Broadway) preceded by:

    MARCH FOR LABOR RIGHTS AT HOME AND ABROAD!

    Gather at noon outside the Park Avenue Country Club, 27th St. & Park Avenue

    sidewalk march past Verizon Wireless, meeting up with the main Parade and Festival in Union Square.

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